Also I personally like adding
Cartouche of Ambition
in my main board to remove creatures and to give your big creatures a lot of lifelink. I found this also really good when paired with cards like Kor Skyfisher and might be good with Invasive Species.

1 year ago

I'm just curious what your thoughts are on Humility since it's such an oppressive effect that you have immediate access to with Zur. You wouldn't necessarily lose your Voltron win con either if you drop a Humility before Empyrial Armor and Cartouche of Ambition because the earlier timestamp of Humility would allow Zur to retain the effects from Empyrial and Cartouche, but it would remove these effects if it came out afterward instead for example.

Something to think about. I think your deck can work around a timely Humility really well and cause most decks in the current cEDH metagame to struggle until they can find an answer. It feels incredibly viable and seems like your deck isn't even hit as hard as HEMAN lists that are constructed around the card.

1 year ago

Blue-Black or Mono-Black, with some in Jeskai, Rakdos, Grixis, and Izzet

Really, blue has some reasonably good card draw, specifically Augur of Bolas, Mulldrifter, Preordain, Ponder, and interaction in the form of Counterspell and the occasional Deprive. Otherwise, they don't have a great set of wincons, sweepers, or removal, so they need another color to get those.

That isn't to say a good mix of both isn't the best option, it probably is. You lose the mono-black payoffs, but get Probe, Forbidden Alchemy, Soul Manipulation. Really though, black is more useful than blue.

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